Fri, 02 Feb 2018

And yet another boring little RVowpalWabbit package update, now to version 0.0.12, and still in response to the CRAN request of not writing files where we should not (as caught by new tests added by Kurt). I had misinterpreted one flag and actually instructed to examples and tests to write model files back to the installed directory. Oops. Now fixed. I also added a reusable script for such tests in the repo for everybody's perusal (but it will require Linux and bindfs).

No new code or features were added.

We should mention once more that is parallel work ongoing in a higher-level package interfacing the vw binary -- rvw -- as well as plan to redo this package via the external libraries. In that sounds interesting to you, please get in touch. I am also thinking that rvw extensions / work may make for a good GSoC 2018 project (and wrote up a short note). Again, if interested, please get in touch.

Sun, 28 Jan 2018

Another boring little RVowpalWabbit package update to version 0.0.11 came in response to another CRAN request: We were writing temporary output (a cache file for the fit/prediction, to be precise) to a non-temporary directory, which is now being caught by new tests added by Kurt. And as this is frowned upon, we made the requested change.

No new code or features were added.

We should mention once more that is parallel work ongoing in a higher-level package interfacing the vw binary -- rvw -- as well as plan to redo this package via the external libraries. In that sounds interesting to you, please get in touch. I am also thinking that rvw extensions / work may make for a good GSoC 2018 project. Again, if interested, please get in touch.

Wed, 13 Dec 2017

A boring little RVowpalWabbit package update to version 0.0.10 came in response to another CRAN request: We were switching directories to run tests (or examples) which is now discouraged, so we no longer do this as it turns that we can of course refer to the files directly as well. Much cleaner.

No new code or features were added.

We should mention once more that is parallel work ongoing in a higher-level package interfacing the vw binary -- rvw -- as well as plan to redo this package via the external libraries. In that sounds interesting to you, please get in touch.

Mon, 06 Mar 2017

This package being somewhat raw, the change was simple and just meant converting the single entry point to using Rcpp Attributes -- which addressed the original issue in passing.

No new code or features were added.

We should mention that is parallel work ongoing in a higher-level package interfacing the vw binary -- rvw -- as well as plan to redo this package via the external libraries. In that sounds interesting to you, please get in touch.